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Word: brutalities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps it is the absurdity of couples gushing vows to one another in honor of the brutal killing of a Roman saint. Or perhaps it was the fact I only got two Valentine's Day cards in my box throughout elementary school...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: ...and a Man's Disillusionment | 2/14/1990 | See Source »

...Crimson (9-9 overall, 4-2 Ivy) plays Princeton (13-5, 4-2) at Jadwyn Gym tonight at 7:30 p.m. Tomorrow, the Quakers (8-10, 3-3) host Harvard to complete the most brutal road weekend of the season...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: M. Cagers Travel to Penn and Princeton | 2/9/1990 | See Source »

...most thoroughly corrupt (and corrupting) cop in an overcrowded movie field. His response to a departmental investigation is to threaten to seduce the wife of head detective Raymond Avila (Andy Garcia) if Avila doesn't quash the case. No question about it, Internal Affairs is a nasty, sometimes brutal, piece of work. But Gere is hypnotic, writer Henry Bean's construction is entertainingly intricate, and director Mike Figgis knows how to turn on a subtle, authentic erotic heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Feb. 5, 1990 | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...explanation was that for a number of years Dr. L. had been hidden, at incalculable risk to his benefactor's own life, in the house belonging to a fellow teacher who, often jack-booted and swaggering about in Brown Shirt uniform, had generally been considered by far the most brutal and relentless Nazi on the school staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John Clive | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...felt the pinch more keenly than heating-oil customers. During the brutal cold snap last month, when temperatures hovered in the single digits even in parts of the Sunbelt, fuel oil was in such demand that some distributors ran dry. The clamor for supply pushed prices up as high as $1.50 per gal., a 50% increase in one month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over A Barrel: Oil Supplies | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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